Ice Maker Machine

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Just saw this on my LinkedIn feed this morning. What had the world come to 💀 I was actually gobsmacked. Throw in the young child too for double emotional blackmail! Someone offered a $200 version of it (slide 3), she didn’t seem super thrilled lol. submitted by /u/verumity to r/ChoosingBeggars [link] [comments]

Para sa home made halo halo and ice scramble or yng mga gulaman and sago desserts. Kaso lang, kung cost per use ang titignan, di naman ako araw araw kakain ng halo halo din submitted by /u/apple-picker-8 to r/deinfluencingPH [link] [comments]

I’m thinking about getting an ice cream machine, but I’m not sure if it’s actually worth the investment or if homemade ice cream turns out just as good without one. Does anyone have any experience with this? submitted by /u/ExpensiveDecision268 to r/Cooking [link] [comments]

Picked up a countertop ice maker about six months ago after seeing it recommended in a couple of subreddits. Here's my honest take after actual use: WHAT WORKS: Ice every 7-8 minutes without fail. Not having to remember to refill trays is genuinely life-changing if you make cocktails or iced drinks daily. The bullet ice is fine for most things. Power consumption is lower than I expected comparable to a small LED TV. WHAT DOESN'T: The ice bin isn't huge so you need to transfer to a freezer container if you're prepping for a gathering. Also the machine needs a cool, ventilated spot doesn't perform well in a hot kitchen corner. The bullet ice cools you drink fast but also melts soon. Overall I'd say yes, worth it if you're serious about home drinks. The sphere ice machines which have come up recently are genuinely impressive and im considering and upgrade now. submitted by /u/VanshS-123 to r/cocktails [link] [comments]

Thanks so much to everyone who gave me advice on my geodes in my last post! I started letting my shirts fully dry (for like a week after tying) before dyeing. I’m pretty sure that dyeing them while they were still damp on the inside was preventing the dye from penetrating fully. I also started scrunching up the fabric more between the nubs in order to get a more natural look rather than having them look like topographical maps. I think a few here were tied before I was given that advice so you can see the difference. As for the ice maker. Many of you were right in that it does kind of suck, but in an ok way! So, the ice doesn’t really freeze all the way and I have to put it into the freezer if I don’t use it as soon as it’s made. By the time I have enough to use, most of the ice bullets kinda melt into each other and I have to stab it with a screwdriver to separate them into smaller pieces. Why I think this is ok: it still doubles the amount of ice I have at any given time. That way, I can still use my flat ice cubes as my first layer of ice for my DUI, but once that first layer is on there I can just dump a bunch of the bullets on top of that because it doesn’t matter that they don’t lay flat. This gives me the opportunity to pretty much double the amount of shirts I can dye at a time because I’m not wasting all of my flat ice on layers. Would I recommend getting an ice machine to *replace* ice trays? Absolutely not. But it certainly helps to increase the amount of ice I can produce and therefore speeds up my process. submitted by /u/two-of-me to r/tiedye [link] [comments]

Today is our two year anniversary and it was a very special milestone to me as he is my first boyfriend. With Christmas just gone I was really struggling on what to get him. I tried asking him multiple times and he kept telling me “oh I don’t care” and then I told him no please just tell me something to get you because I don’t want you to hate it. In the past I have bought him an Apple Watch that he ended up not liking which I had to use as my own watch instead as I wasn’t able to get my money back for it. I have tried to be more cautious about making the same mistake. But today I completely failed again. I have been working a lot lately and only had one day off last week. I had asked him multiple times leading into my day off that can he please tell me what he wants as a gift. He kept telling me he’d get back to me but he never did. On my day off I was frustrated and annoyed. I was with my friend and spent about 4 hours going through every store at the shopping centre hoping to find at least one thing to get him. I went into a store that was selling the ninja swirl by creami that was on special. This really seemed to me something my boyfriend might like as he loved ice cream and sorbet. I thought it would be cool as he could experiment and make different flavours that you can’t get at the store. There was also like a bunch of protein options and dairy free that I thought he could find interesting as he expressed intention to eat healthier but still enjoy sweets. I also was thinking about how it’s a good gift that he could share with his family and with the soft serve feature I thought it would be fun to use. Granted it was an expensive machine for $477 AUD but I thought two years anniversary was something worth celebrating. Plus I had a $300 gift card that was literally collecting dust that I hadn’t used that I wanted to just get rid of. So really only $177 of my own money. I talked it through with my friend and decided to get it as it was literally 30 minutes until closing time and I had tried every other option. I felt confident in my decision. Later that night before I was going to sleep my boyfriend sent me a message saying “oh here’s a shirt you could get me for our anniversary.”. This really annoyed me as he knew that I didn’t have another day off before our anniversary and that I wouldn’t be able to leave my job to get anything or get it after work as the store was far away from my house and workplace. I told him I had already gotten him a gift and that he should have sent it earlier. Regardless I was still confident in my decision. Fast forward to today I had wrapped it up and given it to him. At first he acted really excited and interested. He did ask me how much it was and I had told him not to worry about the cost. But he pressed me so I had told him exactly how much it was but that I had brought it with gift cards. He still Smiled and said he liked it. It wasn’t until later in the day when he was going home that I started to get the impression he didn’t like it. He said that he was going to leave it at my house and I said no it’s your gift take it home. Then he said oh no I want to make it with you the first time we can do it later. And I said well no take it home we can make it at your house. Then he said no he wants to leave it here. I said to him oh well can you just let my mum know why it’s here then because she made it clear to me that she didn’t want it to live here. Then he just completely blew up at me and asked me why on earth would I buy this thing and that it was too much money. That he was never going to use it and that I should never of bought it. I started to cry as I was shocked from the sudden switch up and then he started to taunt me almost by saying oh now I’m the bad guy for telling the truth. “This is exactly like that stupid Apple Watch” and then he reminded me that he asked me to buy him a shirt not an ice cream maker. Then he told me I never listen to him and that I am bad with money and make impulsive decisions. I wanted to argue back and stand up for myself but I knew it would just escalate things further and I was devastated as it’s literally our anniversary and he’s blowing up at me for buying him this gift I generally thought he’d like. I also didn’t really know how to respond. I mean I feel like a complete failure. A bad girlfriend. Clearly I don’t know him at all as I thought he would love this gift. All I said to him was that I could return it and get store credit. And that I was sorry. But this only made him mad saying I was trying to make him look bad. He then told me that he was doing me a favour by telling me now he hates it and that I couldn’t get mad at him in a months time for never using it Whilst he was going off at me my mum was in the other room. I knew she could hear us so i asked him to lower his voice down. He then got frustrated and said he had to go and I just said ok no worries. I couldn’t bring myself to say anything. After he left my mum came and checked on me if I was ok. I just cried to her and she acknowledged she had heard what he had said and noted he was acting like a prick. She told me you don’t do that to someone if you don’t like a gift. You don’t say it to them on the day like that. Now our anniversary is ruined. I even told my coworkers about this gift I was planning to get my boyfriend and they all hyped me up. Now when I go back to work I have to embarrassingly explain to them how it went horrible it went as I know they will ask. So what do I even do now? I don’t know how to move forward from this or where to start? Do I apologise to him? Do I return this gift and get him a different one or nothing at all? I feel pretty shitty right now and I want to know if there’s anything I could have done differently? Thank you for reading and I’d appreciate any advice anyone may have :) submitted by /u/imogenhailey to r/relationship_advice [link] [comments]

We had a reverse osmosis water system installed under the sink in November. This one: https://www.waterdropfilter.com/products/waterdrop-reverse-osmosis-water-filtration-system?gad\_source=1&gad\_campaignid=19899194292&gbraid=0AAAAACnjAZ3Uxykkk5SvRG-BwiuEk1i6h&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0tyQq-SfkgMVyDgIBR0osTfiEAQYAiABEgKDW\_D\_BwE I also have a countertop GE pellet ice maker that has been maintained without issue for two years. I do the monthly cleaning as instructed and it has never gotten gross. I have never had any problems with mold or mildew in it until the last two months that I’ve been filling it with the reverse osmosis filtered water. If anything - it seems like the RO water should prevent the machine from getting moldy, but it has been (and it could be coincidental) absolutely filthy since filling it with this water. Does anyone have any clue what might be going on? Thank you in advance for any ideas. submitted by /u/Evening_Subject3291 to r/WaterTreatment [link] [comments]

I’m planning to start an ice cube or tube ice business, supplying households as well as cafes and restaurants in my town. I’d like to understand the pros and cons of this type of business, and whether a 30 to 50 kg per 24 hour ice machine would be sufficient to start with. submitted by /u/Acrobatic-Group3440 to r/BusinessPH [link] [comments]

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/WarToad What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about? Originally posted to r/AskReddit TRIGGER WARNING: Teen pregnancy, struggles with poverty MOOD SPOILER: heartwarming What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about? Dec 22, 2009 I was day tripping to Vancouver from Seattle and stopped in for lunch at a little cafe. From my window I saw a young teenage girl out in the cold, squatted down in a closed up businesses doorway, holding a small bundle in her arms. She was panhandling, people were mostly walking by ignoring her. She looked just broken. I finished up my meal and went outside, went through my wallet and thought I'd give her $5 for some food. I got up to her and she was sobbing, she looked like she was 14-15. And that bundle in her arms was a baby wrapped up. I felt like I just got punched in the chest. She looked up putting on a game face and asked for any change, I asked her if she's like some lunch. Right next door was a small quick-Trip type grocery store, I got a can of formula for the baby (very young, maybe 2-3 months old.), and took her back to the cafe though I'd just eaten. She was very thankful, got a burger and just inhaled it. Got her some pie and ice cream. She opened up and we talked. She was 15, got pregnant, parents were angry and she was fighting with them. She ran away. She's been gone almost 1 full year. I asked her if she's like to go home and she got silent. I coaxed her, she said her parents wouldn't want her back. I coaxed further, she admitted she stole 5k in cash from her Dad. Turns out 5k doesn't last long at all and the streets are tough on a 15 year old. Very tough. She did want to go back, but she was afraid no one wanted her back after what she did. We talked more, I wanted her to use my phone to call home but she wouldn't. I told her I'd call and see if her folks wanted to talk to her, she hesitated and gave bad excuses but eventually agreed. She dialed the number and I took the phone, her Mom picked up and I said hello. Awkwardly introduced myself and said her daughter would like to speak to her, silence, and I heard crying. Gave the phone to the girl and she was just quiet listening to her Mom cry, and then said hello. And she cried. They talked, she gave the phone back to me, I talked to her Mom some more. I drove her down to the bus station and bought her a bus ticket home. Gave her $100 cash for incidentals, and some formula, diapers, wipes, snacks for the road. Got to the bus, and she just cried saying thank you over and over. I gave her a kiss on the forehead and a hug, kissed her baby, and she got on the bus. I get a chistmas card every year from her. She's 21 now and in college. Her name is Makayla and her baby was Joe. I've never really told anyone about this. I just feel good knowing I did something good in this world. Maybe it'll make up for the things I've f-ed up. Update - What's your proudest or most-upvoted comment? Feb 12, 2010 (nearly 2 months later) I had no idea this would take off like wildfire. It was years ago, I'd never really talked about it, and it was just kind of special to me. I really hadn't thought about it much since then and was remembering more than anything. I jotted it down in a thread and got slammed with envelopes. Hundreds and hundreds of messages and private messages. One afternoon I finally did something right. An after-the-fact follow-up... I got Makayla's Christmas card this year and gave her a call. She's doing great in school, another couple years left since she started late and works part time too.(Bank Teller) Joe is a lean mean advanced reading machine. Reading books 3-4 years above his age.(7 now.) And he draws Wolverine comics. "He's Canadian, you know that?" Favorite. Hero. Ever. He wants to grow up to "be a comic book maker and pizzas." Keep the dream, Joe. Keep the dream! Her Mom and Dad would like to ccome visit me and my little girl.(I've never met them, but her Dad sends me bottles of homemade whiskey... which actually is surprisingly good.) Which has lead to in interesting quandry. Anonomously I told Reddit. I've never told anyone in the real world. I didn't tell anyone when I came home. I just sat on it. Then a day or two went by. How do you bring it up now? 'Oh, by the way, last weekend... " Then a week, a month. By then I was just comfortable with is as a private memory. Now here I am with a new wife and family... whom I've never told. It's just something I hold as my own. And now Makayla's parents want to visit. How do I just throw out.. 'Hey, Sweetie. I know this is something I should have told you years ago, but..." I dunno. Life moves in mysterious ways. THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP's OR COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS, REMEMBER - RULE 7 submitted by /u/Direct-Caterpillar77 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

To preface, I love my MIL and value and appreciate everything she does for my family. But she really leans into her role as a grandmother and has said "I'm a grandma, I can do whatever I want." whenever we ask her to respect our food choices for our kid. This means spoiling her grandkids with sweets and treats against her kids' wishes at every with. Her kitchen has full cookie drawers at all times. I once watched her give my 8 year old nephew a full angle food cake "just to see what he would do" (spoiler: he ate the full thing and then got sick). So over the weekend we're staying at her house and my 3.5 year old son is very well aware that she'll give him whatever he wants. It's breakfast time and he's asking for ice cream and cookies, to which I say no and redirect him to his banana and yogurt. She gives him the chocolate chip cookies anyway and I say "I'd appreciate you not feeding my son cookies before 8:30 in the morning." She just smiles and says "oh come on, let him live a little!" Later that morning my wife and I are out shopping at one of those beach/tchotchke stores (it's a coastal town, you know the type) and I overhear someone else say "who would want a fart-noise-maker on a keychain??". Well.... this guy. My MIL absolutely HATES potty humor and my son is a 3.5 year old boy so, yeah, farts are the funniest thing in his world right now. I bring it home and it goes exactly as I predicted - she hates it and he loves it, but she can't say anything because she sees how much he's enjoying himself. The thing has six different noises and he's absolutely laying into, having a blast, and all-around cackling. So my MIL is grumbling about how disgusting it is and how she hopes it breaks, and I just shoot her a grin and say "oh come on... let him live a little!' submitted by /u/HorrorIron443 to r/pettyrevenge [link] [comments]

Good day, I was planning on starting up an ice making business. My friends that are cafe owners said that they had problems buying ice as it was source from another city. Tapos nearby my location marami rin cafes and restaurants. Just want to gather insights regarding that business if any of you guys are familiar. What type of machines needed and how much is the upfront cost. Is it better to buy the machine locally or source it from china. Any troubles doing the business, or any tip for people planning to start. All comments will be highly appreciated! submitted by /u/Fickle_Chapter_3713 to r/phinvest [link] [comments]

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Our fridge was making a loud whining noise from the back where the ice machine was. Repair guy came in and right from the start I sensed he really just seemed to be making things up about the source of the problem. I had watched some videos and told him I thought it was the fan. He took a look and told me it probably was but it couldn't be replaced because it was attached to multiple other things. So the options that he gave me was to replace the whole auger motor unit (which included the fan), live with the noise, or buy a whole new fridge. He left and charged me $120 for the service call. After watching more videos, the next day I removed the auger motor unit and discovered that in fact the fan could be removed. I bought a replacement fan and now the fridge is working fine again. My question is should I complain to the company that sent him? I'm not expecting the $120 back but I feel it was just horrible service and they should know about it. I'm a bit reluctant though because the repair guy was quite young, had only been doing this for a couple of years, and seemed like a nice guy. So on the one hand I'm pissed because this kind of service is really unacceptable but on the other hand I don't want to get the guy in trouble. But again maybe it's a learning opportunity for him. Or I should be letting the company know so other people don't get this kind of service. What's everyone's thoughts? submitted by /u/KStranger to r/appliancerepair [link] [comments]

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https://imgur.com/a/T1wFJXv My wife has been talking about how much she wanted a GE Opal ice maker ever since we stayed in an AirBNB and it had one. After looking at the price of one of those bad boys, it made me sick to my stomach. How could somebody stomach buying such an expensive appliance? Cut to last week, a Facebook marketplace post caught my eye. The old generation of GE Opal Profile ice machines for pretty much nothing. The lady said it was in non-working condition and she was not technical enough to figure it out. I am very technical and have never been scared of opening things up and tinkering so I went and picked it up. I immediately ripped into it, pulled out every single tube, every single piece that held water. I scrubbed for hours, it was absolutely disgusting. The lady mentioned it started running hot so I took an old PC fan I had and threw that on the side. I put it all back together after about 3 hours of deep cleaning and fired it up. I did it!! I couldn't believe how quickly this thing started making ice, it was almost instant. My wife came home from work to a full bucket of nugget ice, it was all worth it to see how happy she was from something so silly. submitted by /u/DetroitEXP to r/Frugal [link] [comments]

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So many awesome, wonderful humans from the community made this possible. The MVP of this is ⭐️ u/TiberiusWoodwind ⭐️ for putting together most of these pieces and diving deep into the "It's Not A Cycle" Cycle. You're a legend and a rockstar. Special Contributions by u/WhatCanIMakeToday, u/loggic, u/Livid_Peach4593. You all are brilliant wrinkle brains. Special thanks to u/wakeuparleen, u/PastorStonks, u/jaykles, u/No1Important_4real, u/CruxHub, u/GMEJesus and everyone in the DD chats. Each of you was so patient and helpful, we are grateful to have you here in this community. Maxing out the 40k limit on this one, LFG. 0. SUMMARY On February 24th, a system-wide crash at the Fed disabled the movement and reporting of electronic cash flow for approximately 3.5 hours. During this time, financial institutions were unable to move money around and make payments using the National Settlement Service which clears settlements for the DTC. Suddenly, when the system came back online, "meme stocks" began going bonkers with massive volume spikes followed by swells of gains into after hours. We believe that due to systemwide delays to intraday settlement reporting, when the system came back online, it attempted to start settling naked shorts. Even Ryan Cohen himself attempted to point out the problem with his legendary McDonald's Ice Cream cone tweet. Ken Griffin was quick to publicly blame RC's tweet for the sudden surge and provided a convenient red herring to distract from possible evidence of naked shorts, that if revealed to be true, would open up many more questions into his positions and the continued naked short selling of GameStop. We've come to two distinct conclusions about what happened on February 24th: This was in fact an unexpected computer crash due to an "operational error". Maybe the reason Feb 24 was so batshit crazy at the end of the day was due to the computer coming back online, seeing naked short positions and starting going haywire on DTC Participants. This should provide enough evidence to warrant an audit of short sellers and market makers during the events of February 24th. The computer suddenly recognized there was an irrational amount of DOOMPS that needed to be settled than physically possible on that date, and shut down due to computational error. Now short hedge funds are stuck kicking the can every 90 days. If this is the case, the DTC/Fed should be held responsible for market manipulation charges. 1. THE ICE CREAM MACHINE To begin to understand the situation that happened that day, it's important to understand the FED system that broke. These systems are so vital to our economy that without them we are unable to process things like direct deposits of payroll, Social Security, and income tax refunds as well as auto payments for mortgages and utility bills. For Financial Institutions, this system handles trillions of dollars a day in electronic money transfers, credit, and debt payments. One of the big ones that went down was FedWire: which is a real-time gross settlement funds transfer system. This system moves trillions of dollars a day electronically for most financial institutions. The most important service to note for this story is the Fed's National Settlement Service (NSS). The NSS provides (but is not limited to) the following functions: Allows for settlement of interbank obligations in central bank money. Reduces the duration of settlement risk for participants in private-sector clearing arrangements by providing same-day finality. The operative words here are that it's used to settle intrabank obligations and offers same-day settlement finality. One of the biggest power users of the NSS is a name you might remember quite well, the DTCC. According to the DTCC website, this is how they describe the NSS for their organization and respective participants: Throughout the settlement processing day, as transactions are processed against a participant’s account, settlement debits and credits are updated in the settlement system on a real-time basis. Although the actual settlement process requires final settlement figures at approximately 3:45 p.m. eastern time each day, the DTC operates a settlement system that provides Participants and Settling Banks with online reports throughout the processing day. These reports reflect intraday gross debits, gross credits, and the net debit or credit for each Participant, as well as a net-net figure for each Settling Bank. This is also how participants are evaluated on whether or not they should receive insane levels of leverage from the DTC. These intraday reports and settlements give the DTC insight into how much risk their participants are eating up. Each participant must choose a settling bank that is also a DTC participant with access to the Fedwire system and NSS to act on its behalf when settling with DTC.Settling banks, acting on behalf of participants, acknowledge or refuse to settle participant balances. Upon acknowledgement from all settling banks, DTC collects and disburses settling bank balances through the Federal Reserve’s NSS, which directly posts debits and credits to settling bank accounts. According to the DTC, a Settling Bank may refuse to settle on behalf of another Participant for which it is the designated Settling Bank. It is the primary obligation of each Participant to ensure that its net settlement balance, if any, is settled timely. If a Settling Bank does not settle on behalf of a Participant, or a Participant that acts as its own Settling Bank does not fund its settlement obligation, it will be in default under the DTC Rules and Procedures. 2. THE DAY OF FEBRUARY 24th, 2021 ​ 9:30 AM (ET) — Market open That morning, GME opened at $44.70, showing few signs of life in terms of volume or price action. Our favorite stock had been trading sideways for most of the month and if you were around in those days, there was a lot of chaos on Reddit at the time. There was no real news to note that day. Jim Bell had announced his exit a few days prior and we'd just come off a week of our first Congressional Hearings. Things were trading sideways. ​ 11:15 AM (ET) — The Ice Cream Machine Breaks The Fed computer system crashes in the early morning. The “operational error” impacted multiple services and systems that were mentioned previously. The system connects depository and related institutions sending electronic credit and debit transfers. Almost all forms of electronic money movement were disabled for hours that day. Within minutes, the word is out on the street, and most companies and institutions are painfully aware that a problem exists, but all you can do is wait. ​ 1:57 PM (ET) — RC Tweets 🐸🍦 During the standstill, Ryan Cohen breaks 38 days of Twitter silence to share this masterpiece that stole our hearts. 👇 What does it mean? Let's find out. While the tweet opens itself up to interpretation, it's usually best to take an Occam's Razor approach when looking for answers. The simplest answer is usually the right one. Let's start with the ice cream cone. Did you know that Ryan Cohen took the Chewy board out for McDonald's soft serve after their first board meeting? While we could only imagine being a fly on the wall in those days, it is safe to assume that McDonald's Ice Cream holds some sort of symbolic meaning to Ryan. And for anyone that frequents McDonald's Soft Serve, IYKYK. That shit is ALWAYS broken. If you reverse image search the ice cream cone pic he chose, you get this result. 'McBroken' aims to fix a common problem for McDonald's customers: arriving to find the ice-cream machine is broken. While there is probably some symbolic meaning behind the McD's Soft Serve, Ryan Cohen would never expect the general public to know what that is exactly. It would be safe to assume, Ryan is implying that something is broken. At the time, many Redditors even said "Oh, maybe the dip machine is broken". What NOBODY has any decent theory on is what the frog emoji means, it sure is provocative. Well, let's see what Google has to say about that. \"I am so happy this happened!\" Quite clearly, the first reference for the frog emoji's symbolic meaning is "I am so happy that happened". If you look around you might find some different connotations that imply a mischievous manner, sarcasm, or the Kermit sipping tea meme ("But that's none of my business"). If you look back on RC's tweets at the time (Jan 6, Jan 17, Mar 4) he was quite clearly speaking in a code that featured a single emoji and a picture. When you combine the emoji with the picture, it is quite clear that RC is saying: "The machine is broken and I am so happy to hear about this." After almost 2 hours since the outage began with no word from the Fed, for any savvy investor, it is quite clear that this wasn't just a glitch or a hiccup. Something was wrong. After the January fuckery, Ryan was probably well aware that the price was being suppressed and an inability to move money would affect that. He may have been calling his shot or was laughing at the broken system that attempts to suppress and bankrupt GME. ​ 2:30-3:00 PM (ET) — The Ice Cream Machine is "Fixed" Reports are mixed as to when exactly when the Fed system came back online. Some say2:30 PM, others say 2:45, while others claim outages and warnings were still apparent after 3 PM. From the sound of it, problems and outages were gradually resolved and it's impossible to tell what services were accessible and when. That said, it gives us a time frame. Let's look at what happened to GME at 2:30 PM (ET): ​ GME with Volume bars from Feb 19 to March 3 WOAH! For a company with no news and little to no daily volume, things got spicy right at 2:30 PM. See those massive green bars? Right at the time the Fed system is first reported to be back online, the trade volume begins going bananas! Look at the relative daily volume for that week. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/history?period1=1613865600&period2=1614384000&interval=1d&filter=history&frequency=1d&includeAdjustedClose=true That's an 11x daily volume increase! So now can see quite clearly that the massive surge in GME tracks with the exact time frame that the Fed system came back online. So the question is, why would the Fed outage cause such a huge surge in the volume and price of GME? If you remember back to Section 1, the restoration of the Fed system means that National Settlement Service (NSS) is was back online. As a reminder, the NSS is part of the Fed's Automatic Clearing House system that generates intraday reports on participants and settles funds for the DTC. If you remember, there was no access to systems like FedCash or Check21 during the outage. It is extremely likely that institutions would have been left vulnerable during this time, unable to move money around and cover up risky assets or outstanding FTDs. In theory, when the NSS came back online, short hedge funds would have been unable to make their usual settlement deposits to maintain risky assets and keep their leverage at unprecedented rates. The NSS thusly started to settle positions intraday in order to meet the credit/debt ratio needed for settlement at 3:45 PM (ET) end-of-day. In order to support this theory, it would be smart to look elsewhere in the market that day. If the NSS started to liquidate risky short positions, we should see the same movement across the other "meme stocks". Let's look at 🍿 3:30pm for The Sticky Floor Stock What about 👖 3:00pm for Jeans Stock I need some 🧃 3:30pm for the Nudity Stock Volume on blast for 🎧 3:00pm for the Not-Bose Stock What are the fucking chances? Each of these heavily shorted "meme stocks" saw MASSIVE volume increase at the same exact time, out of seemingly nowhere. To further support the theory, each instance of the surge happened during the exact times when the NSS supposedly came back online. While we aren't privy to the logic or reasoning why the NSS would begin to force liquidations in these stocks, this correlation between heavily shorted "meme stocks" and GME makes a compelling case that the NSS was eliminating (possibly naked) short positions. We can further confirm that the movement is related to naked shorting when we look into how XRT responded in the following days. 3. The ETF Release Valve Credit to u/Livid_Peach4593 Let's talk about SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), one of the most heavily shorted ETFs on the market. XRT is the S&P Retail ETF which included $GME as one of its securities from January to March this year. In fact, as of February 24th, GME was the highest weighted security in the fund (2.77%). In order to explain how GME and XRT relate, let's look at the "Gamestop Report" as written by Gary Gensler's team at the SEC: "As GME increased in value, price changes in XRT became increasingly driven by those of GME. Shorting XRT could have served as an indirect, though the imperfect, way of shorting GME. In fact, staff observed a large spike in net redemptions of nearly 6 million shares in XRT on January 27, which may be consistent with short selling activity". HOW IT WORKS: Let's say a hedgie wanted to secretly short X, Y, and Z. That hedgie would short the whole ETF and buy long on every other share in the ETF except for X, Y, and Z. That way their short exposure is only X, Y, and Z but their short positions are listed under the ETF. A Hedgie would need to use this method if stocks X/Y/Z are illiquid or are known to be. To support the conclusion drawn by the SEC, let's break out the crayons. Let's look at the following chart of XRT ETF Activity versus the GME closing price that day. XRT ETF Activity vs. GME Close Price (1/27-2/12) You can see quite clearly that XRT activity (daily volume) died off with the decline in GameStop's stock price. Once GME hit the $50 mark, XRT's activity quickly tapered off as low as a sub-600k volume. Let's fast-forward to the day in question. Here's a look at XRT around the date of February 24th. XRT ETF Activity vs. GME Close Price (2/22-3/10) Since GME rallied late in the day on February 24th, there was very little time to suppress the price using XRT shorts. They ultimately waited until the next trading day where XRT volume skyrocketed. At a glance, the chart might not seem to indicate that GME's price was affected, but let's take a close look at how the stock did that day: ​ Stock Date Open High Low Close GME Feb 25th $169.56 $184.68 $101.00 $108.73 Holy shit! Yes, you read that right. The stock price dropped a whopping 83 points that day. That's a massive, nearly 50% drop! Some of the pygmy marmosets in the back might be asking themselves: 'Okay, but wut all mean?' Let's summarize : The SEC has confirmed that short sellers used XRT to indirectly short GME in January. The SEC has also confirmed that there is a causal relationship between XRT volume and GME close price. XRT, heavily shorted in its own right, indicated large volume spikes after 2:30 PM (ET) on February 24th alongside GME and other meme stocks. An increase in XRT Activity on the following day (February 25th) indicates that short sellers retaliated by using ETF's like XRT to deaden any chance of FOMO buy-in, and forced a massive drop from $184.68 to $101.00 These conclusions beg the question — If GME short sellers did in fact cover in January [lmayo], why would they need to peel back the price again in February? HOT TAKE: They needed GME price action to look like a dead cat bounce. You can find articles like this one (Published 2/26/2021) that propagate that narrative. Unfortunately for them, the illiquidity was much more prevalent and paper hands had already jumped ship. They could have worked to bring down the price in AH or pre-market but the buying pressure was seemingly out of their control and/or inevitable. BONUS: When XRT rebalanced in late March, they dropped GME from its fund. For any GME short seller, this rendered XRT useless. You'll never guess who decided to pack their bags... WHERE ARE YOU GOING, KEN? 4. The Cover-Up They made two distinct plays to try and cover their asses on this. (As mentioned previously,) There were quite a few articles published that quickly framed the narrative around the February 24th spike being chalked up to a dead cat bounce. You can see articles like this, this, and this. The "technical analysis" gives validation to the sudden/random rise in price without much thought. It's 'just a silly meme stock after all'. EDIT CREDIT: u/CookShack67 found Anthony Chukumba saying this EXACT sentiment. Go figure. The most popular scapegoat for the incident was the Ryan Cohen tweet. Most of the articles that day, like this one, made him out to be some sort of meme messiah that discovered the power to move markets. About a month later, in classic Ken Griffin fashion, to cocksucker made sure to drive the narrative again in his interview with the Financial Times. Neither explanation for that day is backed by any information other than emotional fodder for those who think "Meme Stocks R 4 Dum Dums". And to be honest, the communities on Reddit ate up those explanations without even a second thought. At a glance, the tweet technically preceded the sudden rise on Feb 24th, but there were about 30 minutes to an hour of time before we rocketed. Ryan Cohen isn't Elon Musk as much as the media likes to say he is. He just likes the stock. If that's the best explanation anyone has, we think it's time to start re-opening that data and see what actually happened on February 24th. "This is Not a Cycle" Every quarter is 90 days. When we look at GME's put option activity, we can see massive collections of Deep Out Of The Money Puts (DOOTMPs) that expire on the first monthly expiry date of each quarter. This date is always on the 3rd Friday of the 1st month of every quarter. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that they have to settle those trades on those dates. Instead, they are given C+35 and T+2 days after the first monthly expiry date of the quarter to settle those massive bombs of Deep Out Of The Money Puts. Let's look ahead and see this in action: Massive Put Volume on April 16 (C+35 and T+2 to May 25) Citadel, Susquehanna, Melvin puts expiring July 16. (C+35 and T+2 to Aug 24) Brazilian puts expiring on Oct 15. (C+35 to Nov 19) When we look at example #3 (above), we can tell that it started early. That or the peak would've lasted over the Thanksgiving holiday. If they had waited for T+2, it would've given them only half a day on Black Friday to short it back down before weekly close. I know you haven't seen pretty crayons in a while, so let's see how the "This Is Not A Cycle" Cycle looks on a chart. ​ Yellow boxes = put expirations // Pink boxes = GME spikes. In the chart above, you'll see yellow boxes that denote the first monthly expiry date of each quarter (the 3rd Friday of the 1st month of every quarter). In the right light, they really do seem to look like 90 day cycles. What is actually happening is C35 + T2 occurring in the same position in each quarter. 🚨 Okay, now listen up you degenerate chimpanzees. 🚨 This doesn't mean go YOLO on options for March 1st because there's been a pattern. Just like with this most recent C35, covering could start early or they could try some method of kicking the can entirely. Playing options is inherently more risky than buy/hodl/drs and is likely best left to apes with ample experience with them and an abundance of cash. More knowledge should go into an options play than 2 boxes and an arrow. Okay, so now with all that being said, let's jack your tits with a new date. If we take the "It's Not a Cycle Theory" forward, we should see another put bomb setting up on January 21, 2022. (C+35 and T+2 to March 1). Take a look for yourself! If you made it this far and you're thinking to yourself, " I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to DOOMPs and why the hell is it C+35 and T+2? I'm lost." Hold on a moment, let's dive into that real quick. DOOMPs Credit to u/WhatCanIMakeToday Deep Out of The Money Puts (DOOMPs) are a key loophole that short sellers use to create greater naked short positions. They will use married puts from a market maker to synthetically create naked shares to short. Major shoutout to u/broccaaa for his work on this subject. When those puts expire, the marriage is over and the short positions are revealed. So, the short positions would get re-married. One of the legends that uncovered this, WhatCanIMakeToday, made a great post about this, Peek-a-boo! I see 103M hidden shorts! (Part Deux). When we look at the "It's Not a Cycle" Theory, we need to take close look at what happened in January. Let's see how many marriages of short positions got divorced on expiration: Jan 15, 2021: About 339k OTM Puts expired (the equivalent of up to~ 33.9M shares) Jan 22, 2021: About 121k OTM Puts expired (the equivalent of up to ~12.1M shares) Jan 29, 2021: About 329k OTM Puts expired (the equivalent of up to ~32.9M shares) That sure is a hell of a lot of divorces and exposed short positions! We've yet to find evidence that OTM Puts were ever this extreme before January. It's obvious that a lot of money was thrown at these OTM Puts during the runup, expecting the price to fall, This OTM Puts in January serve as the primary catalyst for the chain of events we see today. Since then, the can have been kicked over and over again with DOOMPs that pop up consistently on the first monthly option expiration of each quarter. This happens every C35 + T2 from that date. C+35 and T+2 Credit to u/loggic The C+35 and T+2 Settlement Period means participants are given 35 Calendar Days plus 2 Trading Days to settle the trade of DOOMPs. Reg SHO provides a number of different circumstances under which C+35 applies. This language repeats in those circumstances: ...35 days after the trade date, the broker-dealer that effected the sale must borrow securities or close out the short position by purchasing securities of like kind and quantity... So that's where C+35 comes from. The DOOMPs are on the books, likely being used as a part of some nonsense Delta hedging scheme and/or just as a "leftover" from some options exploitation scheme. When those options expire, there's a new need to purchase shares to make the books balance. Okay, then why T+2? T+2 is the typical settlement time for transactions being settled by the NSCC. You receive the shares before the market opens 2 days after the transaction. In other words, if you buy shares Monday, you should actually receive those shares on Wednesday morning. Why does the NSCC do it that way? Their Continuous Net Settlement (CNS) system batches all of the trades going through the NSCC into one giant pile, then cancels out as many as possible. So if I buy 10 shares in the morning then sell 10 shares in the evening, CNS just cancels out those two trades and adjusts my money account accordingly. It then continues that process such that it settles as many trades as possible by T+2. In other words, if you sell 10 shares to me on Wednesday, CNS will probably deliver those shares to someone else who bought on Tuesday (yes, before you even sold) & then try to deliver shares to me from sellers on Thursday. But what happens if CNS doesn't actually have enough shares to deliver? What happens when someone FTDs? CNS will try and find shares to deliver anyway. Typically this means CNS will borrow those securities from a willing lender, deliver them to the buyer, and charge the person who FTDs until they can actually deliver. In any case, the shares don't need to actually move until T+2 after someone hits the "buy button". Since market participants have various ways to effect a near-instant settlement, they can delay the buying pressure until nearly the last moment. So, yeah. The Market Maker can push their nonsense out to as far as C+35, which lobs a grenade onto someone else's lap (like the CNS system itself) which goes off by T+2. ​ The Smoking Gun Let's put this all together... We have GIANT piles of puts that expired OTM in the last few weeks of January. And we know that those OTM Puts must be settled in C35 + T2. If we plot that out on our handy dandy chart... Oh shit, is that February 24th? Quite possibly, When February 24th rolls around, the computer says, "Oh shit, oh fuck, we have to settle those 33.9M shares from OTM puts that expired January 15th." If it's a half-decent system at assessing risk, it would also start to think, "Oh shit, oh fuck, I also have to settle 45M more shares by March 10th?" 🤖 \Computer does math** 🤖 "This number is a total of 78.9M shares of GME which is 2x larger than the available free float at the time. JPOW, how the fuck do you expect me to handle this?" CONCLUSION We've come to two distinct conclusions about what happened on February 24th: This was in fact an unexpected computer crash due to an "operational error". Maybe the reason Feb 24 was so batshit crazy at the end of the day was due to the computer coming back online, seeing naked short positions and starting going haywire on DTC Participants. This should provide enough evidence to warrant an audit of short sellers and market makers during the events of February 24th. The computer suddenly recognized there was an irrational amount of DOOMPS that needed to be settled than physically possible, and shut down due to computational error. Now short hedge funds are stuck kicking the can every 90 days. If this is the case, the DTC should be held responsible for market manipulation charges. ​ HOWEVER... There are also a TON of unanswered questions that we still don't know the answer to: If the outage was a protocol to buy more time for the DTC and NSCC to assess the situation? What could they have done during the outage to mitigate risk? Why does the Founder of Citadel, GME's designated market maker, act like a frog & ice cream tweet is what caused retail FOMO buying? He should very well know that the price began increasing at the same time a computer system came online that handles end-of-day settlement. Oh yeah, and why did IV drop to ZERO on February 24th? submitted by /u/Prof_Dankmemes to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

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